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Poster Abstract Skeete1, J., X. Pratt2, A. Nagchaudhuri3, E. Yilmaz4 and G. Bland5. 2009. Issues, challenges, and applications of kite aerial imaging. JEMREST 6b:00-00 Applications involving precision agriculture and environmental stewardship at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) have utilized a variety of platforms including manned airplanes, robotic helicopters, as well as, small remote controlled unmanned aerial vehicles for remote sensing and aerial imaging. Under suitable wind and other weather conditions kite aerial photography (KAP) could provide yet another low cost option for precision agriculture and a variety of other applications involving earth sciences, disaster surveillance, and natural resource management. A preliminary study involving lift and drag characterization of several kite configurations likely to be utilized for aerial imaging applications, and, laboratory and field investigations of Picavet and Aeropod platforms for KAP, are reported. The efforts involving appropriate geospatial information technology tools and software to georeference, mosaick, and analyze kite aerial imagery are also outlined. ^1NASA summer intern – Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program ( Morgan State University) ^2NASA summer intern – Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (University of Maryland College Park) ^3Professor, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore ^4Professor, Department of Technology, University of Maryland Eastern Shore ^5Aerospace Engineer, Instrumentation Systems Branch, NASA Wallops Flight Facility

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